low 3dmark06 score?

[talkshowhost]

Hi there,

I just bought a opteron 185 as I thought my opty 146 was slowing down my 8800 GTS.

Put in the new CPU and booted up as normal - shows correct in CPU-z. BUt when I run s3mark 06 i get a socre of about 5600. Does this seem very low to anyone? Spec is now as my sig.

thanks for any assistance.

 

[talkshowhost]

apprciate my RAM is not the fastest but surely it should hold it back that much??

not overclocked anything at the moment. CPU is 2.6 and FSB at the moment 200.

the breakdown of my score is as follows and comparing on the futuremark site against similar systems the SM 2/2 scores are way lower

3DMark Score 5636 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 2400 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 2248 Marks
CPU Score 1926 Mark

 

[talkshowhost]

this is the comparison with similar systems - something is clearly wrong here?

 

[talkshowhost]

its the ram its way too slow
the cpu isnt getting enough information fast enough and so the gpu is just sitting there with nothin to do waiting for the cpu

just edited my sig as had a typo in the RAM description. Would this now be causing such a slowdown/bottleneck?

 

[talkshowhost]

hmmm just changed tne nvidia control panel to make sure v-sync, AA and anitstropic filtering are all off and still i get the same score

the only things I can think of are that I have the card in the second slot down on the motherboard but they are both PCI-e 16x slots so wouldn't have thought this mattered?
http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_pro....jsp?PRODUCT_ID=3471&CATEGORY_TYPE=LP&SITE=UK

Also my monitors native res is 1680x1050 and doesn't have 1-1 pixel mapping so the default settings of 1280x1024 mean the pictuee is stretched?

 

[talkshowhost]

thanks for the help guys but have now managed to sort it thankfully. The reason was the card was in the second slot down on my m/board which was causing the PCI-e slot to be running at 2x instead of 16x !!

Now scoring 8,400. now to start overclocking and see what I can hit.....

thanks again.